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Olivia Boteler Porter (d.1663)

Photo credit: The Bowes Museum

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This portrait was formerly thought to represent Queen Henrietta Maria. The sitter was instead the Queen's lady-in-waiting, Olivia Boteler Porter, the wife of Anthony van Dyck's friend and patron Endymion Porter, whom she married in 1619. While in England, Van Dyck painted a number of portraits of different members of the family. The white satin dress with long puffed sleeves was intended as a classicising note of timelessness. Olivia Porter was the daughter of Sir John Boteler and Elizabeth Villiers, niece of the Duke of Buckingham. The red carnation in her hair might be a heraldic motif, since it appears in other images of female members of the Villiers family.

The Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle

Title

Olivia Boteler Porter (d.1663)

Date

1630s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 72.4 x W 61 cm

Accession number

O.88

Acquisition method

bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Work type

Painting

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Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8NP England

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